Setting Customer Expectation in Service Delivery: An Integrated Marketing-Operations Perspective

Management Science - Tập 50 Số 4 - Trang 479-488 - 2004
Teck‐Hua Ho1, Yu‐Sheng Zheng2
1Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720
2The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104

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Service firms have increasingly been competing for market share on the basis of delivery time. Many firms now choose to set customer expectation by announcing their maximal delivery time. Customers will be satisfied if their perceived delivery times are shorter than their expectations. This gap model of service quality is used in this paper to study how a firm might choose a delivery-time commitment to influence its customer expectation, and delivery quality in order to maximize its market share. A market share model is developed to capture (1) the impact of delivery-time commitment and delivery quality on the firm's market share and (2) the impact of the firm's market share and process variability on delivery quality when there is a congestion effect. We show that the choice of the delivery-time commitment requires a proper balance between the level of service capacity and customer sensitivities to delivery-time expectation and delivery quality. We prove the existence of Nash equilibria in a duopolistic competition, and show that this delivery-time commitment game is analogous to a Prisoners' Dilemma.

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Management Science

Tập 50 Số 4

479-488

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